Events
Let all the senior citizens in your life know: next Wednesday, March 23, from 11am-2pm, at the Cumberland Gotham Health Center (100 North Portland Avenue, at Park Avenue) is the first annual Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Senior Resource Fair. At least 30 vendors — representing city agencies and community providers of everything
Business
La Royale Beer Burger House opened this week in the old Mezini space. (Photo by Park Slope Stoop)The long shuttered on-again, off-again restaurant at 492 5th Avenue (between 11th and 12th Streets) now has a new name, a new menu, and newly opened doors. La Royale Beer Burger House
Neighbors
Photo by Park Slope StoopThe landlord of an assisted living facility at 1 Prospect Park has filed a suit against children of the elderly residents who remain in the building, according to the New York Post [http://nypost.com/2016/03/14/nursing-home-owner-sues-tenants-children-for-50m/] . Landlord and developer Haysha Deitsch accuses the
Food & Drink
Photo by Park Slope StoopWith so many places in the neighborhood to grab a mimosa and a plate of eggs on the weekend, how can you decide which is the best spot to take your visiting in-laws or where you’ll want to sit quietly for a couple hours with
Events
Image via Meghan Corridan [https://www.instagram.com/p/W9-nS8SKZA/].St. Patrick’s Day is this Thursday, March 17, and the neighborhood is a pot o’ gold full of celebratory options! From parades, to bars, to the beloved Irish Soda Bread, you need not go far from our neighborhood to
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Image via Habana To Go.Habana To Go (757 Fulton Street, at South Portland Avenue) is seeking “fun and outgoing” people to work the counter and bus tables [https://www.instagram.com/habanatogobk/]this spring and summer. The NYC Parks Department is also seeking seasonal workers [http://www.nycgovparks.org/
Arts & Culture
Photo by Amanda Gentile via Irish Arts Center [https://www.facebook.com/IrishArtsCenter/photos/pb.111165658915969.-2207520000.1426521945./734498519916010/?type=3&theater] This St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish Arts Center [http://irishartscenter.org/] is once again spreading the word — quite literally — about Irish and Irish American authors during
Arts & Culture
Photo by Amanda Gentile via Irish Arts Center [https://www.facebook.com/IrishArtsCenter/photos/pb.111165658915969.-2207520000.1426521945./734498519916010/?type=3&theater] This St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish Arts Center [http://irishartscenter.org/] is once again spreading the word — quite literally — about Irish and Irish American authors during
Food & Drink
Photo by Park Slope StoopThe neighborhood boasts a brand new, authentic Japanese izakaya with this week’s soft opening of Yami-Ichi (206 Garfield Place). The opening happened surprisingly fast, since Chef/owner Saeri Yoo Park announced the closing of Moim on January 30 [/blog/business/7th-avenue-culinary-spring-training-sir-ds-lounge-opens-soon-moim-closes-and-an-izakaya-on-deck/] . The Korean restaurant had
Nonsponsored
Photo by Todd HaimanNeighbor Todd Haiman took some amazing photos of a magnolia tree on Lincoln Place that’s just about to bloom. We haven’t had the greatest weather over the last few days, but it looks like Spring is just about here! Photo by Todd HaimanTake any photos
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Let there be light. Now that a $4.8 million lighting installation project has been completed at Harlem’s Polo Grounds Towers public housing development, the city is continuing to go full steam ahead at the next eight (8) locations — including our very own Ingersoll
News
This screenshot of a map produced by CNYCN shows the intense concentration of small residential buildings on the City’s tax lien sale list in North Staten Island, South Brooklyn and South Queens. There is also a similar concentration in the North Bronx.Over 1,300 single family and small